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CIO l?ejWft on ihe Cattle Exhibited at Whidsoi'. 
back, with good flesh-points all over, and a head and horns 
much of the old Warlaby character. His parentage is illustrious 
— his sire " lliby Star," the well-known Ardfert-bred bull, 
whose progeny have done exceedingly well in the show-yard, 
and his dam the famous " Lady Pamela," repeatedly a winner of 
the Society's first prizes and champion honours. It was said 
she would never breed. Mr. Thompson's " Master Smartly 7th " 
in this class, a " Beau Benedict " bull, carries a head as like his 
sire's as one bullet is like another cast in the same mould. The 
Duke of Portland's " Sir A^ictor,"' a son of Messrs. Mitchell's 
" Wanderer," of Mr. Torr's " W " tribe, has a vigorous, masculine 
presence, and " King George," from the same herd and by the 
Warlaby " King David," some good structural details. He 
might have done better if his colour had been of a richer hue. 
It looked sunburnt and faded, but his form and flesh are right. 
Class 78, Bulls of 1888, contained sixty entries, two with- 
drawn, nine absent. The forty-nine brought together in the Show- 
yard formed a class of mixed merit, yet would have afforded 
material for several good classes of average number at district 
shows. The Queen and the Prince of Wales contributed not only 
to the number, but very considerably to the merit of the class, in 
which the First Prize winner was Her Majesty's " New Year's 
Gift," bred by Lord Lovat, at Beaufort Castle, Inverness. The 
award was another just tribute to the judgment manifested by 
the Shorthorn breeders of Scotland, and a due recognition 
of the excellence of the animal selected to represent the herd 
at the Prince Consort's Shaw Farm. 
The Sandringham entries were both from the Bates herd, 
and both sons of " Baron Oxford 18th." One, " Orient," is own 
brother to " Oxonian," already noticed. After great painstaking, 
the Judges found in Mr. J. Deane- Willis's "Sir Douglas" their 
choice for the second place of honour, gave the Third Prize to 
Mr. Thomas Willis's " Heir of Windsor," and placed in the 
Reserve list Messrs. W. and J. T. Taylor's smart-looking roan 
bull, " Royal Windsor." Beyond the prizes, their only high 
commendation was to Captain Duncombe's " Renown," and 
they commended " Rupert " (one of the Sandringham bulls), 
Mr. Richard Stratton's "Merry Mowbray," the Marquis of 
Headfort's " Grand Duke of Waver! ey," and Mr. John Clark's 
" Warrior's Fame." Had they extended the list of commenda- 
tions, as some Judges would have been tempted to do, seeing so 
much promise of future usefulness as there was in the class, 
they might have created for themselves a difficulty in deciding 
where to stop. 
The Cows in Class 79 numbered twelve entries, and eleven 
